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Peter Loring Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:03:36 -0400
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Not to rest at all!  Dr. Steve Sheppard and others continues to follow
this.  Out of the entire US bee population of perhaps 4 million hives, the
vast majority of queens are produced each season from a relative handful of
breeder queens, by only a few producers.  

I think these numbers are closer to the actual:

> In studies conducted in 1993-1994 and in 2004-2005, U.S. commercial queen producers self-reported the production of close to 1 million queens for sale from around 600 and 500 queen "mothers," respectively (Schiff and Sheppard, 1995, 1996; Delaney et al., 2009). 

Sammataro, Diana, and Jay A. Yoder, eds. Honey bee colony health: challenges and sustainable solutions. CRC Press, 2011.

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